To save the 'credibility' of it's 'privacy’; WhatsApp may close down its service in India

FEB 09 (WTN) – WhatsApp, which is being used by crores of Indian, may be closed down in India. You may have been shocked by reading, but if some of the rules proposed by the government to the social media companies doing business in India were implement, then WhatsApp could be missing from the Indian market. According to the information, there are about 150 crore users of WhatsApp in the world, whereas the highest number of 20 crore monthly users are in India. If for any reason the WhatsApp closes in India, it will be a major loss to the company.

According to Karl Wooge, Communications Chief of WhatsApp, "One of the rules from the proposed rules in India is the reason of concern, and that rule is to emphasize the detection of the message." For your information, let you know that WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption by default, which means that only the reader and the recipient can read any message. The security of messaging in WhatsApp is such that WhatsApp itself can’t read the sent messages itself.

According to Wooge, the changes that are being implemented in India are not in accordance with any concrete confidential security whereas the whole world wants privacy in WhatsApp messaging. WhatsApp says that they provide end-to-end encryption, but due to the new rules in India, they will have to face a lot of trouble and the privacy of messaging will also be broken.

Discussions are common, if the new rules were implemented in India, then WhatsApp could disappear from the Indian market. The company is not seen in the mood to compromise on any price with its privacy. In such a case, the popular WhatsApp may disappear from the mobile of the Indian people.

For your information, let you know that law enforcement agencies in India seek to reach out to the accused that have spread rumors, but because of WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption feature, but it is difficult. But it is necessary to the social media platforms to follow the rules proposed by the Ministry of Information and broadcasting to prevent the spread of violence by the misuse of its services in terrorism and Maoist violence affected India. Now it is necessary to see what solution the WhatsApp brings to remove this problem.